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The Week In Review
Fri 30th April to Thu 6th May
The Week in Review aggregates the top news stories from the past seven days and orders them by popularity. Would you like to see the whole week's news?
New body launched to enhance status of cyber investigators
06/05/21 - New self-funding institute is outsourced under a contract with the College of Policing. • A new body that will provide formal recognition for investigators who are cyber crime specialists has been launched by the College of Policing and the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec) The body - the Institute of Cyb
Animal welfare campaigners celebrate Finn's Law part 2
06/05/21 - Offenders who injure police dogs could face five-year jail terms now Finn's Law is fully on the statute book. • The tariff for offenders found guilty of harming a service animal has been increased from six months to five years. The Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill England and Wales, known as Finn’s Law part 2, has been given Royal As
Voting begins but no Line of Duty bounce for PCCs
06/05/21 - As voting begins in the delayed elections for Police and Crime Commissioners, research has found most of the public have no idea who they are voting for. • The election delayed for a year by the COVID-19 outbreak is finally under way but an opinion poll has revealed Police and Crime Commissioners are still unfamiliar to residents. An opini
- 06/05/21 - The link between cocaine use and football hooliganism
- 04/05/21 - Man died 'after being tasered for 33 seconds and kicked in the head'
- 04/05/21 - Sussex officers start class action over data breach
- 06/05/21 - Crime down while assaults on emergency workers up
- 04/05/21 - IOPC clears Met officer over use of force in stop and search
- 05/05/21 - Targets and jail won't cut crime, Police Foundation warns
- 05/05/21 - Met pledges to learn after IOPC rules on racial profiling
- 06/05/21 - Essex officers walk over 70km raising £9,000 in honour of colleague
- 05/05/21 - 'Terrified' officer feared for himself and his partner, trial hears
- 04/05/21 - PC dismissed for using excessive force on learning disabled girl
- 05/05/21 - Gap in legislation on legality of imported blank firing pistols
- 04/05/21 - Kent issues safety advice as PCSO murder inquiry continues
- 04/05/21 - Avon and Somerset officers and Hot Fuzz Swan move to new site
- 04/05/21 - GMP Fed joins calls for officers at protests to be given protective kit
- 04/05/21 - Independent Assessor of PSNI Recruitment Vetting appointed
- 30/04/21 - Devon and Cornwall bolsters Airwave and charters ferry ahead of G7
Features
How effective are liaison and diversion schemes?
Work with offenders looks at a new evaluation of the national model. • The RAND Corporation has just published its Outcome evaluation of the national model for liaison and diversion. As most readers will know, Liaison and Diversion (L&D) services are designed to support people with mental hea
Comment
Facial Recognition Technology: a force for good
Real life cases of LFR finding missing children and identifying sex offenders are being lost in a narrative centred on privacy and data protection says former surveillance camera commissioner Tony Porter. • In recent months, there have been a number of reports of UK police forces leveraging Fac
- Comment: The Lord, the Policing College and the front line
- Comment: where next for policing and technology?
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